Stellantis Teams Up With Pony.ai To Develop Robotaxis In Europe 

Automaker Stellantis and Chinese autonomous conveyance institution Pony.ai person signed a non-binding statement to build robotaxis for deployment successful Europe.  

The collaboration will merge Pony’s self-driving package into Stellantis’s electrical medium-size van platform, which is built pinch precocious sensors to support autonomous vehicles.

The companies scheme to first deploy trial vehicles based connected nan Peugeot e-Traveller model. Testing will statesman successful Luxembourg, Pony’s European headquarters, successful nan coming months, pinch plans to rotation retired much vehicles crossed European cities starting successful 2026.  

The tie-up comes a fewer months aft Pony announced a partnership pinch Uber to deploy successful world markets, including Europe and nan Middle East. It besides comes aft nan institution received an autonomous conveyance testing licence from Luxembourg successful April. 

As Pony.ai useful to grow beyond its existing markets successful China and carve retired marketplace stock successful Europe, nan institution is besides chasing a 2nd IPO. Already listed connected nan Nasdaq, Pony is besides pursuing a secondary listing connected nan Stock Exchange of Hong Kong.